Robert Kane Pappas, director of “To Age or Not to Age,” and Dr. Leonard Guarente, featured in the film, and Dr. Nir Barzilai, Director of the Institute of Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, talk about the pioneers in the field of anti-aging research at Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, and other research centers, and discuss ways to postpone and possibly mitigate diseases tied to aging. “To Age or Not to Age” opens at Cinema Village East July 16.

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Royce
from New York City

The company that I am contracted with makes a high quality grape seed extract with resveratrol supplement that is great for cardiovascular health and also a powerful antioxidant. It costs less than $30!

I find it hilarious that Merck is going to develop a chemical or drug that competes with nature or God, claim its better with a "study" and sell it for $150-$200.

I am jubilant. I cannot wait to re-listen to this segment with my wife. Eternal youth for us as we do not want offsprings.

It seems to me that my "unhealthy" habits are gonna keep me alive a long time. No food, no sleep, no stress, alcohol, nicotine?

I was born in '74 and I had regretfully accepted the conventional wisdom that I would not see the 22nd century but...

On another note I am fond of aphorisms and would love to credit myself for changing the idiom : "To kill two bird with one stone." Very destructive and replace it with"To pop two balloons with one dart!"

Leonard, I'm sorry to hear your friend got cancer. But not all lung cancer is related to smoking; she may have a different type of lung cancer. Radon exposure is the 2nd most common cause of it, & it causes a different kind of lung cancer.

It sounds to me that, given the state of healthcare in this country, anti aging drugs and the priviledge of longevity will be mostly available to the rich. You will need money to acquire these drugs and we know how much drugs cost.

re: disease free enviros & life spandoesn't the evidence of autoimmune diseases such as significantly higher rates of asthma in western medicine environments compared to 3rd world enviros present a bit of a conundrum here? that and other inflammation related syndromes/conditions? [i wouldn't even know where to begin w/ the bacteria vs virus stuff here either] just saying you have to live somewhere w/ everything else that has to live somewhere, too.

The "French Paradox" has nothing to do with the fact that they drink lots of wine - it has to do with the fact that their diet has varied very little throughout their history. The French have ALWAYS drank wine, ALWAYS eaten very rich foods.

Not so scientifically speaking - we become fat when we deviate from our genes.

For some reason or another aging is related to telomere length. There was a suggestion that cell division and telomere shrinkage can be controlled by sleeping and eating less. Is this understanding still valid?

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